Red Drops Updates - December

In December, admist of the big Disaster, team Red Drops managed to serve few needy people. The team arranged 17 Blood donors for their 17 request. 10 donors were sent to Egmore Children's Hospital to meet the requirement of a single patient who needed 30 units of blood. 

          Karthick's work was of opine. 

          And again, the Recipient's and Donor's Database was updated for this month.

          Sumatha and Soundarya provided us with much valuable information about blood and the                   matching of blood.

          Here is the infos: 

Albumin:

• The main protein in human blood and the key in regulating the osmotic pressure of blood. 
• Chemically, albumin is soluble in water, precipitated by acid, and coagulated by heat.

The blood that someone is given is 'matched' so that it won’t be destroyed by their immune system.

• Type A Blood Group will match with the Blood Groups who has A or AB Blood Group.
• Type B Blood Group will match with the Blood Groups who has B or AB Blood Group.
• AB Blood Group can only match with a person with AB Blood.
• Blood Group O can be given to anyone, so someone with that blood is called a 'Universal Donor.'
• But a person with type A can only take blood from someone with type A or O Blood Group.
• Type B can only receive blood from someone with B or O Blood Goup.
• AB can receive blood from anyone. This is known as being a 'universal receiver.'
• Type O can only receive blood from someone who is type O.

Red Drops Update - November

In the month of November, Team managed to arrange 26 donors for 42 requests.
The volunteers, Jai, Sumatha, Arun, Akshyaa and Karthick, who took the maximum efforts, need to be appreciated.
As usual, the Blood Informations and the Awareness messages were given by Sumatha and Soundarya.
Lakshmi Rekha took the responsibility in maintaining the Database of the Donors and the Recipients.

A few information by Red Drops:

ABDOMEN:

*The word , "Abdomen" has a curious story behind it.
*It comes from the Latin "abdodere" meaning is to hide.
*The Idea was that whatever was eaten was hidden in the abdomen.

Kundrathur Sapling Plantation

Sapling Plantation at Kundrathur in Suresh and Ajesh home was an extraordinary experience. Our Green-Warriors planted 5 saplings in Suresh's home and 8 saplins in Ajesh's home. The event which started at 9.00 a.m got over by 12.00 p.m. Thanks to the new volunteers Thamim and Uday for their untiring work, in spite of being new to the volunteering events, placed their maximum efforts in digging the pits and planting the saplings. Sasikala who planted her first tree sapling was on cloud nine and excited to do that. The lead, Arun, cooridnated the event in a successful way which resulted in timely start-up and completion of the event. Ajesh's family involvement was an Icing on a Cake.

"If you think in terms of a year, plant a Seed,

If you think in terms of years, plant Trees, 

If you think in terms of 100 years, teach the Community !"

- Conficus

 For Snaps:

https://www.facebook.com/arun.prasad.7921975/media_set?set=a.1042891895730610.1073741838.100000294298719&type=3

A Cascade Sapling Distribution

Day by day, a lot of change in people's Mind set and Behaviour, to show their care towards the environment to make it clean and green.  

We had great Mind Boggling events finished off in the past three days(19/08/2015-21/08/2015).

We distributed 

52 Saplings in the reception of N. Santhosh & R. Hemalatha, at Chellamal Sakthi Mandapam, Madipakkam (19/08/2015). 

Volunteers who helped in these event are: Aarya, Surya and Harish.

Special thanks to Mr. Chandru for referring us for this event.

44 Saplings in the reception of P. Rajesh & R. Malathy, at Shri Shri Shri Chandra Sekara Thirumana Mandapam, Alandur (20/08/2015).

Volunteers who helped in these event are: Surya, Selvi, Akshayaa, Poongodi, Kirubakaran, Karthick and Laxmi Rekha.

Great thanks to Mr. Jagadish for referring us for this event.

150 saplings at Ponneri (20-08-2015) in the reception of  E.Ramanarajan weds R.Kalaivani, UKN Mandapam,  at Ponneri, 
Thanks to Gowtham and Surya for coordinating the event

122 Saplings in the reception of M.Malini & M.Velmurugan, at Naggy Reddy Kalyana Mandapam, Vadapalani(21/08/2015).

Volunteers who helped in these event are: Selvi, Jai Sankar, Divya and Keerthivasan.

Great thanks to Sasi anna for referring us for this event.

32 sapling in the reception of Vimal kumar weds Vani, at Nemilichery.

In this past Three days, we distributed 400 saplings in these Five distributions.

Our calling team is ready for to call the recipeints in this packed up series of Sapling distribution.


And a very special thanks to all the Green Warriors who had made it possible. 
Few Snaps:

Tree Visit 1

Jeans, Malls, Metros everywhere with a rapid  decline of eco-system with a strong  evidence of   the absence of  a natural sunshade and the chirping of birds is the state of most of the metropolitan cities in the world.

Inspite of this we the members of Chennai social service are feeling blessed in sharing our success with this blog on our FIRST WONDERFUL TREE VISIT EVENT on august 30.

As planned we split up into 6 groups for 6 identified zones. The number of trees that we planned to visit were 52 but we could actually visit only 16. The further details of our visit are shared here:

zone	Zone Volunteers	No. of Trees planned to visit	No. of Trees actually  visited
Thiruvallur	Sai, Kirubakaran	12	6
Kodambakkam	Arun, Akshayaa	5	1
Anna Nagar/ Ambattur	Sowmya, Surya, Jaffer	12	6
Manali/ Madhavaram/ Tondiarpet	Gowtham	5	1
Alandur/ Valasaravakkam	Ponmurugan/ Dinesh	9	2
pallavarm	Sanjay Kutty	9	0
		52	16

It was a great experience and got a chance to interact  with different minds. One of the highlights are that, people are well aware of the contemporary scenario and they gave us new methods for composting . they are highly  interested in growing trees and welcome and thank our efforts for our mission towards green Chennai. 

For Snaps:
Subramaniyan weds Maithili - https://goo.gl/photos/vvt6Ci5BfBt29LTs8
Harish weds Niranjani - https://goo.gl/photos/LRJnPMpzuFojMhCx6
Alexraj weds Grahalakshmi - https://goo.gl/photos/fhHqLwjjQE98WCgf7

CSS 9th Anniversary Celebration

CSS 9th Anniversary celebrations - 2nd August 2015- Vinobha Hall - Thakkar Bapa Vidyalaya School

CSS’s stepping into 10th year was an enthusiastic and yet a sorrow filled happening due to demise of People’s President and Youth’s inspiration Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. This gentleman had passed away few days ago hence we at CSS dedicate our 9th Anniversary event to this Gentle Giant.

The guest of honour was Mr. Palanidurai and his family; they along with Sathish Kumar of CSS lighted the Traditional Lamp.

A two minute silence to departed souls who have led their lives as an example for future generation to aspire for, a small Audio Visual on Dr. Kalam, Followed by an elegy on Dr. Kalam by Jagadish and followed by mention of Sasi Perumal Ayya’s demise fighting for Prohibition.

The program was hosted at Vinobha Hall in Thakkar Bapa Vidyalaya.

1. The Next on agenda was CSS Annual report which was presented by various team leaders.
2. This was followed by Poetry recitation and below are the Poets and their poems
1. Mr. Magesh
2. Mr. Sakthi
3. Mr. Keerthivasan
4. Mr. Arun
3. The next was a presentation by Dr. Sumatha on food which we consume and how they are related to our body’s main organs and how they benefit us.
4. A energetic dance performance by Gowtham Shana
5. Awesome duet performances  by Pritivi and Swami Sir
6. CSSians skit on Child Sexual Abuse Prevention

CSS had the privilege of honoring best performing Volunteers over the year and were categorized as Volunteer of the Year and Star Volunteer

Star Volunteer - Their support is reflected in their commitment towards the team projects they had taken and accomplished over the year. They have been volunteers for many years and their continued presence gives the Organization strength and enthusiasm to carry on with many more activities and projects.

1. Mr. Ashwin Kumar

2. Ms. Akshaya

3. Mr. Arun Prasad

Volunteer of the Year - The volunteers have shown promise and also dedication to the task assigned to them. They have committed to the particular task and were proactive in volunteering for activities as and when time demanded. Thanks to you all.

1. Mr. Gowtham

2. Mr. Surya Prasad

3. Ms. Kanchan

4. Ms. Sowmya

5. Mr. Karthik

6. Mrs. Lakshmi Rekha

7. Ms. Pavithra

Special Appreciation Award - These volunteers and Corporate Organizations were immensely supportive of our initiatives like Vegam 2015, Nal Olluka Payirchi volunteering, Supporting our Nutritious Drink distribution, Sponsoring for our events and above all standing shoulder to shoulder in times of need.

1. Mr. Yuvaraj

2. MOP Vaishanv College for Women

3. Williams Lea

4. Mrs. Rekha Selvakumar

5. TCS Spencer Plaza

6. Outreach Cognizant Technology Solution

9th Anniversary celebrations Income and Expenses Report

Venue Charges- 5500

Venue Extra charges- 700

Electricity Charges- 500

Food expenses- 6000

Mementos- 9500

Total expenses incurred- 22200

Donations received in Kind

Mr. Sathish Kumar- 6000

Ms. Sruthi- 3000

Mrs. Asha Sridhar- 3000

Mr. Madhu Gupta- 2000

Mr. Praveen Kumar- 500

Thanks to all the volunteers who have given their time and energy over past one year in organising and being part of many activities. Hope to see same kind of support for this new year too.

Photo album Link:

https://goo.gl/photos/FMUkt8JFc79SizRDA

ECG - Orientation Session - 2015

Environment Care Group (ECG) team had a Orientation session on July 19. The session happened with the following agenda:

1. The event started with following Video Clippings:
   1. Speech of President Barack Obama in UN's Climate Summit 2014.
   2. Speech of Actor and Peace Messenger Leonardo DiCarpio in UN's Climate Summit 2014.
   3. Documentary on Jadav Payeng, the Forest man of India.
2. Inspiring speech by our Dynamic volunteer Gowtham on `Why we should care for Nature?`
3. Briefing on all the activities in Team ECG.
4. Arun Prasad gave an overview of achievements of the team in last 1 year.
5. Break.
6. Video on M. Yoganathan, Tree Bank of South India.
7. Detailed briefing of sapling followup process.
8. Discussion on Field Visit and Tree Album ideas with Action Plan.
9. Zone leads Registration.
10. Feedback / Suggestions.
11. National Anthem.

Thanks to the following green warriors for attending the session and taking up `Zone lead` roles as follows:

1. Pavithra - Adyar
2. Surya - Valasaravakkam
3. Arun - Teynampet
4. Gowtham - Tondiarpet
5. Saiyasodharan - Alandur
6. Sanjai Kutty - Pallavaram Municipality
7. Jaffer - Ambattur
8. Bharathi - Valasaravakkam
9. Swetha - Adyar
10. Kirubhakaran - Thiru Vi Ka Nagar
11. Sowmiya - Anna Nagar
12. Dinesh - Alandur
13. Akshayaa - Kodambakkam
14. Yeshvant
15. Rajendran Selvamani
16. Prithviraj

Zonal leads for following zones still open:

1. Tiruvotriyur.
2. Manali.
3. Madhavaram.
4. Royapuram.
5. Perungudi.
6. Sholinganallur.

"We are the first generation to feel the Climate change and we are the last generation to do something about it."

 - President Barack Obama, UN Climate Summit 2014.

Links:

1. Chennai Zonal Map - http://chennaicorporation.gov.in/images/MAP_ZONE_WARD.jpg